It's not just season 2... i'm hoping that the end of Season 1 will finish strong.

They were overbudget ...

so i guess we can assume that primatech paper company = DHS?

New Wallpaper!

A solid show with some progression, what more can you ask for

It was indeed called the Lindeman Act in the ep.

And...WOW. The effusive praise for this ep. is well deserved. Seriously, and without exagerration, "String Theory" is probably the best hour of TV I've ever seen. Every bit of it was pitch perfect, from Sylar's reveal, Peter's bad ass-ness, an ultra hot Claire, an ass-kicking future Hiro, a supporting character in Ando that doesn't grate, NO Micah, an evil Parkman...and I could go on.

Again, WOW.

I am thinking the same. How will they top Sylar, Peter, Hiro and Ando? I have no doubt this season will end with a bang. Just wondering about the next one.

Well, if season 2 bites, at least we can always look back on the greatness that was season 1.

That's what I'm talking about. As long as season 1 is able to stand on its own (and it's looking that way right now), I couldn't care less if season 2 is shit.

But even a horrible Heroes episode could still be better than anything else on TV.

This episode wasn't perfect, either - in the beginning serious Future Hiro was pretty hard to watch. His dialog and toughness seemed forced, but that went away as the episode progressed. Probably just a young actor not used to switching gears. Remember, this is the internet we're on and the rulebook clearly states someone, somewhere, somehow has to find something to bitch about.

trying to avoid spoilers here but i missed this episode and i love this show! please tell me its being repeated some time later this week on nbc, msnbc, scifi, anywhere!!!

Just buy it on Itunes for $1.99, or watch it on nbc.com. They have it now.

Personally, I kinda like itunes as it does not have any ads to wait through.

Actually I think it was intended to seem forced, because it was not the true nature of Hiro. Once he had his friend back, even for a while, he started to just slightly go back to sweet nice Hiro. Really think it has become my favorite season of any show ever, and that is not easy to do. It is really marvellously constructed, and as they reveal more the mysteries get even deeper. Lost could learn some things from Heroes.

Oh, and I thought that Hayden was even cuter with brown hair, which for most girls that are blonde or dye it, is not true.

Great episode. Finally got to see it. It failed to live up to the insane hype that built up for me through reading everyone's responses on this thread, but it was nevertheless a great episode and probably the best of the season. One thing - Ali Larter should never act again. Please, Tim Kring, kill that bitch off. Is anyone else as tired as me of the whole Jessica/Nikki thing?

I think the point here is that "save the cheerleader, save the world" is wrong, because Hiro is mistaken as to who caused the NYC explosion. Nathan made an even worse mistake blaming Sylar for the explosion, as the heroes stop looking for him since they think he's dead. It's easy to work in secret when your opponents think you're dead. Saving Claire needn't save Nathan or illusion-girl, both of which Sylar can easily kill in order to install himself as President. Sylar doesn't know about illusion-girl yet, so I'm betting that at some point he gets access to the Company database, which is far more useful to him since, unlike Mohinder's, it says what their powers are allowing him to go after the highest-value targets first.

If his powers work as speculated, then Sylar can be easily killed if you can get the Haitian close enough to him. I wonder, however, if he can only turn off one power at a time, or only active powers (not passive ones like regen or super-hearing), limitations he may not know about since he usually only deals with one-power specials. Remember that at the time they first captured Sylar the Haitian only had to turn off his TK. If by the time they meet Sylar again he has multiple offensive powers, that won't be enough. Sylar would still be able to kill him and everybody else with something other than TK.

Another thing: at this point do the heroes even know Sylar steals powers? They know he's killing specials, but I don't think they know why.

the haitian can control the mind/brain, so he probably stops it from functioning and thats how he can control the powers.

Okay. We've all figured that Silar can't get a power when someone dies right? Like the girl with the powers of persuasion. But, I wondered about this. Right after Sylar hit Peter with the glass in the head. I'm guessing that pretty well killed Peter until Claire pulled it out and he became alive again. Anyhow, right after the glass went into Peter's head, Sylar looked like he was going to go over and take Peter's power. How could he do this though if Peter is dead? We know of course he didn't get to because the almighty chalk board of power knocked him out thanks to Mohinder. Anyhow, just wondering everyones thoughts on this. I hope it makes sense.

I am in way over my head in time travel/comic book threads, but... by "saving the cheerleader" it gave Peter her power, and by having this power it is actually Peter who is going to "save the world?" Perhaps it was not Claire that was going to save the world, but somehow Hiro found that if Peter had her power, he could.

.....Doug bows out of thread and waits to be bashed for posting something either painfully obvious or completely wrong......Have Mercy!!!!

Hmmm.... $1.99 to Apple, or free with a minute of ads to NBC?

I'm paid less than $120 per hour, so $2 for a minute of my time is a bargain, esp when I can just mute the ad, go do something else, then backup the episode to it's start when I tab back to my browser window. Does that make me cheap, smart with my money, or in the wrong thread?

I just watched the entire season of Heroes last week and her storyline is the only one I haven't been that interested in. I think it is partly her fault, but I also think its just her story. Also her power is pretty lame in comparison to the rest of the cast.

Yeah, I'm not sure I would describe the first season of Heroes as "perfect" with the terrible DL/Nikki/Jessica/Micah stuff. That really slowed down some of the early and midseason episodes. This week's episode was excellent, though. It really tied together the earlier episodes with the future stuff.

You realize that Nathan was killed by Sylar, and the Nathan we saw in the future was, in fact, Sylar?

If he needs the brain to absorb the power, then mini-Bilson's self-imposed blast to the head likely destroyed the part (or all) of the brain that he needed.

But Sylar wasn't Nathan for the whole 5 years. Remember that Sylar said "when I killed Nathan, he'd already turned on his own kind."

I'm curious, why is everyone (including the thread title itself) calling this episode "String Theory?" I thought the title was "Five Years Gone."